FRIDAYBy Andy OurielSenior Reporter

After hundreds of requests for Congressman Bob Latta to hold a pub-lic town hall-style meeting on health care reform were ignored, over 50 citi-zens within Ohio’s Fifth District vehe-mently protested in front of his local office by repeating slogans and holding up bright, blue signs stressing the need for nationwide, affordable health care

coverage for every American citizen.Since the summer, the College

Democrats, Organizing for America and Progress BG worked together to collect over 3000 signatures in support of House Resolution 3200 — legisla-tion the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee initiated propos-ing affordable, quality and universal

By Josh WhetherholtReporter

So long Lot 6, here comes the Stroh Center.The groundbreaking ceremony for the new

Stroh Center took place yesterday at the site of the former Lot 6 among a crowd of roughly 400 people, including alumni, students, faculty and administrators.

The event was hosted by senior basketball player Sarah Clapper and Undergraduate Student Government President Sundeep Mutgi. It kicked off with Trustee Bob Sebo speaking to the crowd and recognizing everyone involved with making the Stroh Center possible.

“It’s an honor to be here at the groundbreaking for this new gem for the University and the Stroh family,” Sebo said.

University President Carol Cartwright fol-lowed Sebo by thanking the Stroh family along with the students who helped make the cen-ter happen. Cartwright talked about the many events that would take place at the Stroh Center, the majority of which will not be University sporting events.

“Less than half of the 200 to 250 dates at the Stroh Center will be volleyball and basketball games,” Cartwright said. “There will be trade shows, convocations, concerts, speakers.”

Cartwright joked that even monster truck ral-lies could be held there.

“I think we’re a little small for that, but I just wanted to see your faces,” Cartwright added to the athletic faculty gathered. “It’s okay guys, breathe.”

Cartwright also talked about the Stroh Center being environmentally sound with the help of the design team of the architectural firm Rossetti Associates, Inc. and engineering firm URS Group, Inc. and making the center Leadership in Energy

By Anthony PhillipsReporter

Spending $50 a month total at three local busi-nesses is all it takes to help out the local economy, at least according to retail consultant Cinda Baxter.

Her idea, the 3/50 Project, is aiming to educate consumers about how they can help their local economies.

The project is now a nationwide promotion to ask consumers to buy locally, and it has found roots

Health care reform sparks protestUniversity holds groundbreaking for Stroh Center

Event paves way for start of construction of convocation center

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A WARM WELCOME: Kerm Stroh is welcomed by a crowd of University athletes at the groundbreaking of the new Stroh Center.

Nationwide program seeks to help local businesses

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PROTEST: Dolores Whitman of Bryan, Ohio, exclaims that companies shouldn’t profit from health care, that health care should be a right at yesterday’s protest for Health Care Insurance reform in front of Representative Bob Latta’s office.

Students, city residents submit petition to Latta after concerns go unanswered about town hall meeting

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TAKING DOWN THE TROJANS: Safety Jamal Brown records one of his 6.5 tackles against Troy, the Falcon defense was able to record two sacks and two interceptions.

‘HUGE WIN’

Falcons control both sides of the ball, as Barnes and Williams both chisel names in record book against Trojans last night

When history looks back on Dave Clawson’s career at BG, the first page will be quite a read.

After spotting the Trojans a 14-0 lead in the first half, BG scored 31 unan-swered points, including 17 in the fourth quarter, to deliver their new coach a 31-14 victory at the Doyt last night.

“It was a huge win for us, the new coach, at home, big crowd. You couldn’t script it any better,” quarter-back Tyler Sheehan said.

Sheehan and the whole offense had a good night racking up 389 with a lot of credit due to senior wide receiver Freddie Barnes, who caught a school record 15 passes for 157 yards, and a

pair of touchdowns.“I wouldn’t say a special game,”

Barnes said. “I felt like I was making enough plays to help the offense move the ball and put points on the board.”

Barnes made the night easy for Sheehan, who finished with 339 yards on 32 of his 44 attempts.

The senior duo produced the Falcon’s first points of the night with 3:48 remaining in the first half, when Barnes pulled in a 31-yard touchdown pass after finding a seam in the Trojan defense.

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RECORD SETTER: Wide receiver runs after making on his school record 15 catches.

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FANS GET ‘FIRED’ UP:See Pulse Page 5 for tasty tailgating tips and traditions.

NUMBER OF THE GAME

31The number of points the Falcons scored against Troy, all unanswered.The number of senior cornerback Roger Williams, in his first career start he had an interception and moved into first place on the career kick return yards.The number of yards on the second quarter touchdown pass from Tyler Sheehan to Freddie Barnes.

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A look at CampusFestWith the beginning of every year there is a CampusFest, and The BG News gives a look at this year’s festivities and the students involved | Page 3

Williams has career nightRoger Williams breaks a record, held since Reggie Thorton played, in the University

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Our free speech rights in actionWhile he’s glad that they’re practicing their First Amendment rights, columnist Levi Joseph Wonder despises how street preachers go about practicing them and suggests how to deal with them | Page 4

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and Environmental Design certi-fied.

“We’re giving our University the world-class design it needs to continue our world-class pro-grams,” Cartwright finished.

University Athletic Director Greg Christopher took his time on stage to thank the Stroh fam-ily and students for giving the athletic department a new build-ing to hold events.

“It took the leadership of one couple, Kerm and Mary-Lou Stroh, to make this dream pos-sible,” Christopher said. “I also think it was impressive how the students stepped up and paid it forward for future generations. This went from just being an arena to being the front porch of the University. This is the front end of a renaissance of capital improvements at Bowling Green State University.”

Finally, Kerm Stroh, the man of the hour, spoke to the gathered crowd. Stroh spread appreciation to everyone gathered as well as the students and other key finan-cial donors to the Stroh Center fund. He also took the time to thank his family gathered at the ceremony.

“As I look at my family here, I want to thank them, because it’s their inheritance here,” Stroh said with a laugh.

Stroh went on to talk about how important it is to support the University in all of its endeavors, especially sporting events. He added that students who attend the University and don’t “bleed orange and brown” are in need of a conversion.

“I want you to make a commit-ment to be the best Falcon you can be,” Stroh said. “I want you to commit to holler as loud as you can whether it’s for the team or against the officials. We’ve come to the place we want to be, so roll along you BG warriors and fight for BGSU,” Stroh finished with cheers from the crowd.

Stroh then stepped down from the stage, climbed onto a back hoe and officially broke the ground for the construction of the new Stroh Center. He fin-ished the ceremony by inviting the students in attendance to join him on stage and sing the unofficial fight song “Ay Ziggy Zoomba.”

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in Bowling Green.Ben Waddington, one of the

owners of Waddington Jewelers, came across the idea a few months ago at a convention for the Independent Jewelers Organization. Waddington soon after searched for the project online and registered to use its banner.

Waddington, along with Barb Rothrock, the owner of Calico, Sage & Thyme, showed the idea to Barbara Ruland, executive director of Downtown BG, who is now heading the promotion in Bowling Green.

“I have adopted it as my own,” Ruland said.

As far as promotion goes,

Ruland said she has not planned anything just yet, but she is print-ing fliers and going around to the local businesses to see if they will display them or a poster.

So far the list of support-ing businesses includes Ben Franklins, the Flower Basket, For Keeps and the Cookie Jar.

Ruland said she does like the project a lot, but one of her favor-ite aspects is the simplicity in it.

“The one thing that makes this so good is it brings it down to a human level,” she said.

The numbers are pretty simple. According to the 3/50 Web site, the numbers show that for every $100 dollars you spend locally, $68 comes back into the community, whereas if you spend that money at a major business only $43 would come back to the community.

So far, the project seems to

have caught on. Baxter has over 9,800 different local businesses across the country registered on the 3/50 project and more than 16,000 friends on Facebook. The cost of the 3/50 Web site is increasing by 16% due to heavy traffic.

“There is a downside to being successful,” Baxter said.

Baxter said all of this came out of a week when she was frustrated with national media. Oprah was telling consumers they should only buy non-necessities once every few weeks. She also saw how there was a really big nega-tive light on the economy in gen-eral, and so she decided to come out with a positive message to encourage local spending.

But Baxter said the message is not to swear off major com-panies. She said the message is

about balancing your spending and using some of that for local businesses.

Waddington said he hopes people become aware of the 3/50 Project. He said he wanted “peo-ple just to become aware of the values and the validity of it [the project]”

Waddington also said Bowling Green is very fortunate as far as small towns go because many of the local businesses are staying here instead of going out of busi-ness.

“The ones with good principles are sticking around,” he said.

For more information about the 3/50 Project, visit their Web site at www.the350project.net. Downtown BG is also planning on having a link for the project on their Web site at www.downtown-bgohio.org.

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coverage — and yesterday morn-ing during the “Lets Get It Done” protest, those in attendance marched into Latta’s 1045 N. Main St. office and handed in the peti-tion while voicing their concerns over health care reform.

“I’m just very concerned about the fact that we are the only civilized nation in the world that does not take care of health needs for its people,” said Bob Callecod, former director of Parks and Recreation in Bowling Green.

“I would like to see a plan that ensures that everybody can get health insurance ... and doesn’t wipe out all of your family savings and put you in debt forever.”

For advocates of H.R. 3200, they would like to see Callecod’s ideal vision become a reality, including one of the millions of Americans who were forced to come out of retirement to cover out-of-pocket medical expenses.

“I’m paying more for my insur-ance than I am making,” said Sandy Rowland, who just obtained her real estate license to pay her $600 per month medical costs.

Rowland, who almost died when her insurance company said they would not pay for a pacemaker after her heart failed, resulting in a second hospital-ization, said she does not want anyone to go through a treacher-ous experience with a corpora-tion looking to save a few dollars

rather than a single life.“They gambled with my life

thinking I would die,” Rowland said.

But while making health insur-ance less expensive without com-promising quality is what Latta would want, he does not agree with the Democrats who are lead-ing the effort in Washington, D.C., to pass H.R. 3200.

According to his opinion piece on his Web site (located at latta.house.gov), Latta said the current health care reform package would only lead to further government intrusion and bureaucracy and all Americans would have increased medical costs.

“No one is going to argue that our country doesn’t need health care reform, but there are sev-eral different ways to go about it,”

said Press Secretary David Popp, speaking on behalf of Latta, who was busy with meetings through-out yesterday.

Even young people realize the need to reform health care imme-diately since they cannot be cov-ered by their parents past age 23.

Senior Rachael Sample, who will be ineligible to be covered by her parents or the University next year, said she has heard stories from her mother (who is a phar-macist) about people sacrificing their meals or rent in order to pay for their prescriptions.

“These are decisions that are impossible to make and Americans should not have to. That is why I’m out here,” Sample said. “There is no reason individu-als should go into debt they can-not deal with in order to survive.”

Latta also was absent when protesters handed in the peti-tion, sparking another debate for many reformists.

“My major issue is not neces-sarily with his positions, but with the fact that his constituents can’t share their positions with him to affect his decision mak-ing progress.” said Michael Hale, organizer of the protest. “He is not even saying yes or no [to meeting with citizens], but just ignoring us.”

Hale, who has tried contact-ing Latta through written letters, phone calls and e-mails, said he has yet to get an answer from his representative on when a con-structive dialogue on health care reform will take place in Bowling Green.

Popp said a meeting to discuss health care reform in the future is possible, but it all depends on Latta’s schedule, which frequently includes traveling from Bowling Green to Washington, D.C.

But Latta not being in Bowling Green to accept the petitions did not put a damper on the day, Hale said. By having a wide array of peo-ple varying in age, culture and even political affiliation, sharing their message through a civil, democrat-ic process was the best way their message will have meaning.

“[This protest] is showing peo-ple in the Bowling Green commu-nity that people are really inter-ested in health care reform with a strong public opinion,” he said.

“We want change and we’d like to affect that process.”

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CHANTING FOR HEALTH CARE: Protestors for the reform of health care march across Wooster Street chanting, “We will not falter, we will not fail, universal health care will prevail!”

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TOP CENTER: Sic Sic’s Darth Vader paints a custom sign for freshman Communications major Kaleigh Lambert during Campus Fest yesterday afternoon. “Sic Sic Sez” signs are recog-nized across campus for their spirited sayings written in black and red paint. The group did the custom signs as their part to bring out some school spirit among students before last night’s football game. Photo by Alaina BuzasTOP RIGHT: Physics lab worker Alexander Nemchinov ducks as senior Kevin Sohnly raises his foot towards Nemchinov’s head during a capoeira exercise. Sohnly said capoeira, a Brazilian marshal art, has multiple benefits. “It’s a great workout and it is a lot of fun,” Sohnly said. Photo by Alaina BuzasABOVE: Freshmen Claiborne Vonier and Zach Ginther roll around hampster style on the University lawn yesterday afternoon. The giant inflatable spheres were run by Cru but rented by the University for Campus Fest. Photo by Alaina BuzasBOTTOM CENTER: CampusFest sprawls across the lawn from University Hall to the Administration Building. Photo by Rachel Radwanski

TOP LEFT: Jill Cancic, a sophomore apparel merchandise major dipped her hand in wax at Campus Fest on the University lawn. The Undergraduate Student Government orga-nized building colorful wax hands giving stu-dents a variety of colors to mix and match. Photo by Hilary SteinABOVE: Seth Schroeder, a member of The Bowling Green State University Outdoor Program, hangs from a tree on the University lawn, trying to catch the attention of potential group members. Jerome Gabriel, Assistant Director of Recreation and Wellness, said the Outdoor Program is a lot of fun. “We pretty much just play outside,” Gabriel said. Photo by Hilary Stein

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The offensive momentum, built from the 31-yard strike, continued for the Falcons in the second half.

Starting from their own 11-yard line, Sheehan found senior tight end Jimmy Scheidler for a 40-yard completion, a couple plays later BG converted a fourth down to Barnes moving the Falcons into Troy territory.

Following a pair of longer runs by running back Willie Geter, the senior duo combined again to tie the game at 14.

Barnes scored his second touch-down of the night after taking a swing pass from Sheehan and beat-ing his first defender before running in for an eight-yard touchdown.

The reception was his 14th of the night, tying him with Corey Partridge and Robert Redd for the most single game receptions in program history.

He later broke the record in the fourth quarter on 14-yard reception.

While the offense played well reaching expectations, the defense exceeded their goals despite allow-ing two long Troy scoring drives.

Troy had started the game with a lighting quick drive that traveled 80 yards in just 1:54, eventually end-ing with a two-yard touchdown plunge by DuJuan Harris.

Troy doubled their lead at the 9:29 mark of the second quarter, when quarterback Levi Brown hit wide receiver Jerrel Jerningan, who fought into the end zone for a 12-yard touchdown.

Following Troy’s second scoring drive, the BG defense stepped up and started applying pressure on Brown, which ultimately changed the shape of the game.

“There is no substitute for play-ing hard. When you can play hard and you run to the football, it can cover a lot of mistakes,” Clawson said. “And I think that’s the best thing our guys did tonight.”

The defense made a big stop on fourth down and inches late in the first half, and from then on only allowed three first downs in the second half.

BG’s pressure on Brown paid dividends in the fourth quarter, when both Roger Williams and Adrien Spencer had their first career interceptions, in their first game starting at cornerback.

Spencer’s interception with 2:14 remaining sealed the win, as he took the ball back 64 yards for a touchdown.

“I was just looking on the Jumbotron the whole time I was running, and I was just waiting to see a shadow,” Spencer said. “I was just thinking the whole time, ‘Just don’t get caught, because every-one is going to make fun of me.’”

Earlier in the fourth quarter BG

took their first lead of the night with 10:45 remaining as freshman kicker Jerry Phillips converted his first career field goal, a 21-yarder.

One drive after Phillips first colle-giate field goal, the BG offense was back in form as they picked apart the Trojan defense for an 49-yard, 4-play drive that ended with senior fullback Chris Bullock diving in for a 1-yard touchdown.

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As I’ve tried to make so abun-dantly clear in the past, I’m a proponent of universal equal rights, First Amendment ones included.

I’m thoroughly glad we are entitled to such freedoms, and my faith in the integrity of our constitutional rights is reassured every time I witness people exer-cising their First Amendment rights in public. Witnessing people making themselves heard amongst the public is quite a sight, and it furthers the democratic system to boot. Free speech is a great thing.

Except when people get too pushy with their free speech rights. And I’m sure you all know of whom I speak.

The preachers.I surely don’t mean to convey

the idea that these people should have their rights of expression stripped away. In truth, I believe they should be able to speak whatever they please. They pos-sess the rights to do so.

However, they’ve picked a rather inconvenient spot — for us college students, that is — to preach aloud for half of all cam-pus to hear. And that stands as quite a nettle in my side.

Preachers are nothing new to me. They pop up pretty much everywhere.

I was forced to deal with them

in the past, as many of my fel-low Carey, Ohio, natives also did. And during this past summer, I even ran into a handful of street preachers while on my way back from work.

And now that we’re back at school, I once again encoun-ter the group that prides itself on spreading verbal sound pol-lution across the entire Union Oval.

As I stated before: they’re everywhere. And when they show up, they make their collec-tive presence known.

Signs, flyers, pamphlets, matching shirts, fists full of Bibles and lots of angry and condemn-ing diatribes are the tools of the trade for these preachers. Let it be known that they make maxi-mum use of these resources.

I’m more than just sick of it. The level of pure displeasure which fills my entire body when I gain sight of these people at work is immeasurable.

They claim to come in the name of a benevolent God, preaching his word to us stu-dents at the University. Their words are anything but loving.

They call us sinners. They tell us to repent or perish. And they tell us if we don’t do exactly what their literal interpretation of the Bible orders us to do, we’re des-tined to be cast into the colossal lake of fire for all eternity.

Because they’re concerned for us. They apparently want to save us.

Yeah, right.These proclamations they

make to us students are nothing

more than thinly veiled personal attacks on our individual codes of morality and spirituality. The smugness emanating from these people is palpable.

The hateful words they bel-lowed out are both xenophobic and anti-pluralistic, in addition to being outright impossible to counter.

Don’t even try to argue with them. Their circular logic will win out every single time. Count on it.

Amidst great change con-stantly making progress in our increasingly postmodern soci-ety, these people make orders that we all willingly adopt their extreme doctrines with open arms, lest we be condemned. These are scare tactics, nothing more.

In the past, I’ve written col-umns about these people, and how we should simply ignore them as a method of dealing with their trenchant words.

I stand by my recommenda-tions to pay them no attention.

As long as their First Amendment rights stand, these preachers will continue to make use of them. Their collective audacity is admirable, but their message is ill-fitting to the heart of a college campus.

This doesn’t mean they will stop coming, however. I fear we are destined to deal with these people for quite some time to come.

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Just because they preach doesn’t mean you have to listen

By Jessica SequeiraThe Harvard Crimson (U-Wire)

Paging Peter Sellers. Suddenly, it seems, a whole lot of people have learned to stop worrying and love the drone.

With the same deadly pre-cision they claim for their weapons of choice, defend-ers of drones — also known as unmanned aerial vehicles — have been gleefully shoot-ing down the arguments of any who dare criticize their tac-tics. “The future of how you use these unmanned systems or remotely piloted systems is really unlimited,” contends one lieutenant general, speaking for them all.

The recent U.S. takeout of Taliban big cheese Baitullah Mehsud has predictably fired up these drone proponents, who see it as a clear-cut success

story and a case for upping the number of UAVs. What’s more surprising, perhaps, is that the counterarguments have been so few and so thin. It’s the spe-cifics, rather than the suprema-cy of the drone approach itself, that have come under attack.

Pakistanis decry U.S. coun-terterrorist strikes in their country as a “violation of sov-ereignty” (apparently, con-tracting out assassination mis-sions to third parties isn’t their preferred method), but these protests really boil down to wanting the missiles in their own hands. Soft-hearted lefties contend that drones take out innocent civilians along with targets. But justifiable as these concerns are, as tracking soft-ware grows more advanced and imaging resolution more clear, the purely mechanical aspect of unmanned warfare will take

care of itself.So how to reckon with that

nagging feeling in the gut when confronted with the statistics — that last year the U.S. mili-tary employed twice as many drones as it did manned fighter planes, that the total number of military drones has increased drastically from 167 in 2001 to 5,500 today, that under Obama’s presidency alone we’ve already ordered dozens to eliminate al Qaeda and Taliban operatives?

CNN.com blithely reports on one Major Morgan Adams, who pilots a Predator sending Hellfire missiles into Iraq and Afghanistan: “He kisses his wife goodbye, drives to Creech, a tiny desert air force base in Nevada, and within minutes could be killing insurgents on the other side of the world.” Now soldiers can go about the dirty business of war and be home in time for dinner.

Thanks to unmanned aerial vehicles, war and dinner can be achieved in same night

By Vikram SrinivasanThe Duke Chronicle (U-Wire)

10,780 dead and counting.That number, undoubtedly

far outdated by now, is the casu-alty count in Mexico’s drug war from December 2006 through May 2009, according to The Associated Press. It captures, in the clearest terms possible, the most important storyline of the inter-American drug war: The American drug fascination carries steep consequences for those in less fortunate parts of the world.

College students would do well to consider their own lives and choices in light of these realities.

Too often, students defend their own experimentation with drugs on the grounds that such use only affects them. Therefore, the reasoning goes, their use of allegedly “innocu-ous” substances such as mari-juana is perfectly justifiable.

In an alternate universe, this

could be an intriguing view. But in this one, it is dangerously wrong.

Particularly at Duke University, we like to talk a big game on social responsibility. It’s the impulse that motivates action on the various humani-tarian causes students commit themselves to, both during the school year and during summer trips overseas.

Yet, according to Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center, the 2008 American College Health Association Survey for Duke showed that 26.4 percent of students have sampled mari-juana at some point. Moreover, at least 12.8 percent of Duke men and 8.3 percent of women have used the drug with some frequency in the previous 30 days, Szigethy said.

The disparity with Duke’s social responsibility ethic is jarring. Although these num-bers are lower than the national

average (14.5 percent of students using drugs in the previous 30 days), we can do better.

This belief in the “innocu-ousness” of marijuana use is especially tragic before the sheer ugliness of the cartels that supply the American drug market. More than drugs, these cartels traffic in fear. Acts of carnage are designed to horrify the public and pressure elected officials to cave in the drug war, so that they might see a respite from the constant bloodshed. Beheadings, hangings and mass executions — with mutilated bodies left strewn in streets and school yards - are commonplace in parts of Mexico. Revenge kill-ings have specifically targeted children of police officers and government officials prosecut-ing the war. Other times, civil-ians are simply caught in the crossfire.

Experimenting with drugs is not as ‘innocuous’ as it may seem

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET What was your favorite free item at CampusFest?

PAT COLA, Sophomore, Sports Management

“A pen, because I can do my homework with it and it has a shiny clicker.”

CLARISSA FRANCIS, Senior, Africana Studies

“Twizzlers, because I didn’t have to buy them.”

KEMON JAMES, Senior, Marketing

“WFAL T-shirt, I’m part of the organiza-tion and love it. They come in three colors.”

KRISTI DOUGLAS, Sophomore, Early Childhood Ed.

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Campus is filled with hopeful students still clinging to their short-shorts as tightly as those shorts are clinging right back to them. And LFO’s “Summer Girls” can be heard in its death throes through dorm hallways everywhere. (Although, to be fair, it’s been doing that since 1999.) Whether we’d like to

admit it or not, summer is drawing to a close here in the Little Windy City.

But don’t reach for your tis-sue boxes just yet. Football season is here to fill the hole the absence of flip-flops and SPF 4 tanning oils have left

in our hearts. And of course by “football season,” I mean “delicious tailgating food sea-son,” and by “hearts” I mean “winter hibernation-ready stomachs.”

Luckily, you don’t have to love football to love partying before the game. All you really need to have is an affinity for

what my one friend calls the three B’s of tailgating: burg-ers, brats and beers.

“There’s a fourth B,” he said, “but you have to be thinking in the gutter.”

I’ll leave it to you to hypothe-size about that last one. (Okay, I’ll give you a hint: Billy Bob’s set from “Varsity Blues” is still the best I’ve ever seen).

Though I can’t offer any helpful tips on how to maxi-mize your success in that cat-egory, I can be your humble guide through this year’s parking lot party.

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Tailgating: coping with summer’s death

THE BOWLING GREENED BURGERShow your love for the orange and brown by coor-dinating your outfit with this tasty, game day-ready burger. Plus, if you have a tendency to get too excited when you eat, and thus routinely wear your food on your chest, this burger doubles as an insur-ance policy against such social faux pas. Dress any hearty burger (enter vegetarian patties here if you are so inclined) with sharp cheddar cheese and BBQ sauce. Swing by Frickers or Buffalo Wild Wings before the game to pick up some fresh onion rings, and top your orange and brown burger with their crispy goodness. Finish with lettuce, tomato, pickles or mayo. This burger, though simple, will make the Freddie Falcon in all of us proud.

THE BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED BRATI know you have to be thinking, “There’s more?” And, yes, if you weren’t filled to your BGSU-heart’s content, you will be soon. The second B, the brat, is arguably the mother of all tailgating food, and there-fore should be treated as such. No fancy tricks from me on this one — just a few simple rules to keep in mind. 1. Don’t boil your brat. It makes them explode. On second thought, go ahead and boil your brats. I’d be really interested in seeing how this one plays out. 2. Don’t use any ol’ bun. A brat is a heavy-duty piece in your tailgating arsenal. You wouldn’t give a

bazooka to a five-year-old, now would you? Saddle that puppy up with a nice thick and hard roll. 3. Don’t use mustard. At least not the plain stuff. Go ahead and try a spicier mustard. It will be worth it. 4. If you need more tricks and tips on how to make your ‘wursts sing, check out www.bratwurstpages.com/brats.html. I’d gather these people have eaten enough bratwursts for all of us.

THE THREE B’S OF TAILGATING

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As cool weather approaches, students fire up grills, don orange and brown paint and prepare for football season to kick off

By Emily BigelowPulse Reporter

It’s that time of year again. Another school year has begun, followed closely by a new foot-ball season. The sight of smok-ing charcoal grills and red and blue Coleman coolers can be spotted in just about any college town as fans gear up for tail-gating events. There is cheering, drinking, laughing, the sound of a marching band pounding away in the distance and so much more.

For Falcons fans, there are more than a few ways to enjoy game day. Tailgating is just the tip of the iceberg.

“[Tailgating] gives the fans a chance to socialize at the ‘game

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ALBUMREVIEWS■ Imogen Heap■ Grade | A+

“Ellipse”WHAT KEVIN PENCE THINKS: With “Speak for Yourself” being released over two years ago, fans of Imogen Heap have been pining for a new album ever since. Her unique ability to hear music in the most inanimate of objects, such as a light fixture, a block of wood or a running shower is what keeps Heap’s sound fresh and unique. Her new album “Ellipse” is no exception. The release of Heap’s third album was well worth the two-year wait. This U.K.-based singer/songwriter/composer has done it again with her new record, taking the listen-er on a journey through the densely layered sounds of each of the thirteen tracks.Heap wastes no time enticing fans with by far one of the highest quality package

designs that I have ever seen on an album. Don’t buy this one digitally. Purchasing the hard copy deluxe edition gets you an extra disk with which all the instrumental ver-sions of the album are loaded. The small book-like design is an extra boon, giving the listener a miniature collection of art to review while listening to what may be the best album of 2009.With tracks like “Aha!” being so incredibly rich with Heap’s signature ethereal sound, it will not take long for first-time listeners to be entranced by the many layers of home-brewed audio. “Wait it Out” and “Half-Life” are reminiscent of her previous albums, while songs like “Little Bird” and “Bad Body Double” are a completely new, more experi-mental feel. If there are five stars to give to an album this year, “Ellipse” gets my five. For a free listen, go to www.imogenheap.com/ellipse for a streaming version of the new album.

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BOWLING GREEN

The Fight Within headlines tonightThe Fight Within will be play-ing at Howard’s Club H along with Anchors, Come On!, U.S. Molly Brown and Zenadare. The show is slated to take place tonight, Sept. 4 at 9 p.m.

Wards of the Mayor at Grumpy Dave’sLocal rock band Wards of the Mayor is scheduled to perform at Grumpy Dave’s Pub tonight at 9 p.m.

Charlie Slick plays Howard’s Club HGo Lab, Falsetto Twins and Wild Whales will play with Charlie Slick at Howard’s Club H tomorrow, Sept. 5. The concert starts at 9 p.m.

Minus Elliot plays weekday showMinus Elliot will take the stage at Howard’s Club H on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 9 p.m.

DETROITReturn of the Legends V.6Ice Cube is bringing his tour to Detroit tomorrow, Sept. 5. Show starts at 8 p.m. at Chene Park, visit www.che-neparkdetroit.com for ticket information. ZZ Top keeps Detroit showDespite Aerosmith pulling out of the double bill show, ZZ Top will still be performing at the Fillmore Detroit tomor-row, Sept. 5. The concert is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. Ticket information available at www.livenation.com.

Steely Dan: Rent Party 2009The 1970s jazz act makes Detroit a stop on their national tour tomorrow, Sept. 5. The concert will take place at the Motorcity Casino Hotel at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

AutoluxThe Los Angeles rock group makes its way east and stops in at the Magic Stick in Detroit tomorrow, Sept. 5. Doors open at 8 p.m. and tickets can be purchased at www.ticketmas-ter.com.

WEEKEND PLANS

THEY SAID IT

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed,

you’ve lost a very important part of

your life.”Brooke Shields | Actress

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Today inSports History1991—The asterisk next to Roger Maris’ single-season home run record of 61 is removed.1981—The Red Sox lose the longest game in Fenway Park history, as the Seattle Mariners win 8-7 in 20 innings.1972—Mark Spitz earns then-record seven gold med-als at the Olympics.1916—Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson plays his final MLB game.

The ListTonight marked the season opener of Falcon football. Today, we are listing the five top storylines from last night’s 31-14 BG win:1. Freddie Barnes: Barnes caught a school record 15 passes for 157 yards and two touchdowns last night.2. Roger Williams: Williams broke the school record for kickoff return yards on his first return. He also caught his first interception to open the fourth quarter.3. Adrien Spencer: The junior corner caught his first interception and returned it for a 64-yard touchdown.4. Fans: While there was nowhere near the goal of 10,052 students, a strong crowd of 14,514 were on hand and cheered the Falcons to the win.5. Containment: The Falcon offensive line was able to contain stud defensive ends Brandon Lang and Cameron Sheffield, allowing them to only have one sack.

SIDELINES

OUR CALL

By Chris SojkaReporter

Though the volleyball team won their opening tournament last week-end in impressive fashion, they are still working on getting better.

While Denise Van De Walle was ecstatic about the win, she still noticed a few areas that needed some attention.

“Team play and playing faster is something we worked on the most this week,” Van De Walle said. “We also spent time on serve receive.”

The Falcons hope to take what

they worked on this week in prac-tice and some of last weekend’s momentum with them to the Radisson New Orleans Airport Privateer Invitational today and tomorrow.

In the tournament, hosted by the University of New Orleans, BG will play host school New Orleans tonight and will meet with Texas Tech and Southeastern Louisiana tomorrow. The Falcons have never faced any of the three schools they will play this weekend.

Van De Walle does not know a ton about any of these teams, but

she has done some research.“Opening up with a very good

New Orleans team will tell us quite a bit,” she said. “They are pretty physical and a bit taller than we are. The other two matches are up will be up for grabs.”

New Orleans opened their season by dropping two of three matches. As a team, they hit just .195, but they got 42 kills and give aces from their star Lindsey Boyd.

Texas Tech was swept by Creighton and Illinois in their open-ing weekend. The team hit only .141 under their first-year coach.

Southeastern Louisiana strug-gled the most in the opening week-end out of the teams the Falcons will face this weekend. If the term struggled does not say it, then the numbers will. The team hit .042 for the weekend.

After going undefeated last weekend, BG is off to the best start since 2001, when the team won five in a row to open the season.

“We’re still evaluating,” Van De Walle said. “We continue to look at the team as a whole and we’ll know more after this weekend’s trip and competition.”

Falcon netters still have things to work on

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LEADER: Senior Kaitlin Jackson will help the Falcons this weekend.

By John LopezReporter

After winning their first match of the season, the men’s soccer team is in Lexington for the 19th annual University of Kentucky Invitational.

The Falcons will open the tour-

nament against No. 25 Louisville. The Cardinals have opened the season 1-0-1 having beaten Bradley University and drawn against Ohio State.

The Falcons also enjoyed a posi-

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS

HEADER: Senior Jacob Lawrence heads the ball last weekend. He and the rest of the Falcons will be taking on a ranked opponent in Louisville this weekend.

By Angelo VelottaReporter

The Falcon women’s soccer team gets set for another two game weekend, hoping to at least get back to .500.

BG comes into the weekend with a 1-2 record, and plays their first of two games Friday afternoon in the Motor City at 4 p.m. game against Detroit.

“Detroit’s not going be an easy team by any stretch, but they’re not Michigan State,” said coach Andy Richards.

The coach was alluding to the Big Ten powerhouse the team lost to last Sunday, when they were ousted 4-0. As for Detroit, BG hasn’t faced them in a while, so it will be a rela-tively new and unknown chal-lenge for the team.

One thing that will even the playing field from the two teams last meeting is that Detroit has made the switch from playing on grass to turf.

Richards is optimistic about the game, and Sunday’s home game against Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne.

“The history of the program has been successful on the road,” Richards said.

As for the home game against IPFW, Richards feels it is extremely important to keep winning at home to build con-fidence and intimidate Mid-American Conference oppo-nents later in the season with an outstanding home record.

“Teams will look and say BG is a tough place to win,” Richards said.

The Falcons beat IPFW last year 4-0 and look to win again this year.

“(We need to) stamp our authority on it early,” Richards said.

One thing is certain is the mindset coming into the weekend’s games. Last week-

end the Falcons won their home opener against Indiana State before losing to Michigan State.

“We have to battle more in every game,” he said.

Richards was disappointed with the way the team com-peted against the two pre-mier teams they have played so far, mentioning they need to kick up their spirits more to match their talent. Despite the two losses to major con-ference teams, he was actu-ally a harsher critic after the win over Indiana State, say-

Falcons travel south to take on No. 25 Louisville

Women’s soccer continuing to battle

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HIGH HOPES: Coach Andy Richards has previously said Leah Johnson (17) is one of the keys to his team’s success.

BG to face Detroit and IPFW in weekend

doubleheader

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ROGER’S NIGHT

By Andrew HarnerSports Editor

It was a career evening for Roger Williams in the Falcons season opener at Doyt Perry Stadium last night.

For BG’s first kickoff return, the speedy junior broke the school record for kickoff return yards with his 17-yard return.

The senior needed nine to break the record of 1,222 yards, previ-ously held by Reggie Thornton – who played for the Falcons from 1986-1989.

Williams came into the contest with 1,214 yards and finished the day with three returns for 61 yards, leaving Thornton safely in his

By Andrew HarnerSports Editor

Senior receiver Freddie Barnes set a new school record after catching 15 passes in last night’s 31-14 win against Troy.

Barnes compiled 157 yards on his way to breaking Robert Redd’s and Corey Partridge’s record for receptions in a game, and coach Dave Clawson said it was simply just what the defense allowed him to do.

“We weren’t necessarily trying to force feed it to him,” Clawson said. “If they would have rolled up a corner, we certainly felt good about our answers going through the field.”

Fellow senior, quarterback Tyler Sheehan, completed near-ly half of his passes to Barnes and said it came from a com-bination of weaker coverage on Barnes and his natural playing ability.

“We know how good of a play-maker he is,” Sheehan said. “As many times as you can get the ball in his hands, the better off you’re going to be.”

One of those times, it didn’t end so well as Barnes dropped a pass that likely would have been a touchdown — while none of Troy’s defense was

Barn burner: Senior receiver breaks school record

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ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWSRECORD SETTER: Roger Williams set the school record for kickoff return yards in the Falcons’ 31-14 win over Troy last night.

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tive start to the season, beating the Marshall 2-0 Tuesday.

“Anytime you can win the first game of the season it’s a huge confidence booster,” said cap-tain Jacob Lawrence. “It makes us more excited to play in that next game.”

Unfortunately for Lawrence, he will most likely miss that next game as he is recovering from a strained groin.

“If anything, I will only get a few minutes in the Louisville game, but I will play on Sunday [against Kentucky] for sure,” Lawrence said.

The Falcons are not too wor-ried about Lawrence’s absence, as sophomore Jake Custer has slotted in well as a replacement.

“Jake and Tanner [Fink] played really well against Marshall,” Lawrence said. “Louisville is a tough team but I have all the confidence in the world that they can do a good job.”

If either the Cardinals or the Wildcats are thinking the Falcons will play a defensive brand of soccer over the weekend, they might be in for a surprise.

Since coach Eric Nichols’ arrival, the Falcons have been playing more inspiring and cre-atively in the offensive half. That should not change this weekend in the Bluegrass state.

“We want to come out and play, making sure we

are not hesitant and not overly impressed with our opponents,” Nichols said.

“Obviously we will have to be great in the back; we can’t give these teams anything. We are going to have to create more in the attack ourselves as well.”

After a day off Saturday, it will be a quick turnaround as the Falcons will take the field against the University of Kentucky Sunday afternoon.

The Wildcats, who lost the Conference USA championship last season on penalties, boasts the nation’s 31st best goals against average at .81 goals per game.

Nichols fully understands the effort it will require to beat the Wildcats and the Cardinals.

“They are both returning great teams from last year, with lots of letter winners,” Nichols said.

“Both of these teams should go on to compete for their confer-ence titles.”

The weekend series should be a good judge of the Falcons promise on the field. If the team can compete at a high level in Kentucky, it could be a sign of good things to come.

LOUISVILLE From Page 6

ing they should have won by much more.

But now it’s time for BG to move on and get ready for Detroit and IPFW. For Richards the goal is simple:

“To win both.”Today’s game will start at

4 p.m. and Sunday’s is at 1 p.m. in Cochrane Stadium.

SOCCER From Page 6

“Anytime you can win the first game of the season it’s a huge confidence booster.”

Jacob Lawrence | Senior

By CJ WatsonReporter

The BG rugby team opens their season tomorrow against Brockport in Cleveland.

SUNY Brockport is a state school based in Monroe County, near Rochester in upstate New York. Brockport competes in the New York Regional League. This game marks the first time the clubs have met.

Coach Tony Mazzarella explained how although Brockport is a smaller school, BG will not overlook them.

“[Brockport] plays a lot of small-er schools but they still go against teams like Army, Dartmouth and the stronger teams in the Northeast,” Mazzarella said.

According to Roger Mazzarella, while comparing notes, talks ensued between BG’s recre-ation department director, Steve Kampf, and Brockport’s recreation director about which club had the better team. When asked if a game could be set up, the Mazzarella’s gladly accepted the offer to prove that BG is as good as Kampf alleged.

While both teams are mostly unfamiliar with each other, last year both squads faced off against the University of Buffalo. BG defeated Buffalo 55-7 while Brockport lost to them 19-7. While these numbers seem to favor BG, the rugby team won’t let it go to their head.

“Buffalo was a tough team … it certainly wasn’t a blow out so I don’t

think that’s something we can hang our hat on,” Mazzarella said.

He went on to explain how this is a new season and you can really never predict these types of games.

The alumni game this past weekend provided a glimpse of what to expect for Mazzarella.

“We saw some things out there that we really need to work on,” Mazzarella said.

Working on the team’s over-all technique and making good throws were some of the key points coach Mazzarella has his team practicing this week in preparation for the season opener.

The game is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. at the Cuyahoga County Airport.

By Brad FrankReporter

Falcon cross country opens its season tonight with a dual meet at Toledo.

The meet will be held at Ottawa Park Golf Course with the men’s team start-ing at 7 p.m. and the wom-en’s team following at 7:30.

Coach Cami Wells said she’s been very pleased with both of her teams so far in practice, and she’s excited to see what each team can do.

“Our goals for this meet are to win, obviously. And we want to get the best out of everyone who runs,” she said. “We can’t control how well Toledo does; we just need to focus on what we’re doing.”

On the men’s side, Toledo didn’t lose any runners from last season. Toledo’s men’s team was voted to finish eighth this season, one spot ahead of BG.

The BG men have lost three consecutive meets to Toledo and are 2-4 overall in the meet’s history.

Wells is excited to see how her team will fare, especial-ly with the way the team has been practicing this season.

“The men’s team has been working well together,” she said. “I’ve liked how the men have been pushing one another and practicing to be more competitive.”

The BG women, mean-while, are 5-0-1 in the his-tory of the Toledo dual meet and have won the last five.

This season BG and Toledo return experienced women’s teams.

“Toledo has a strong wom-en’s team returning,” Wells said. “Whether Toledo’s best runners will compete [today] is unclear. I hope they do, because we always want to do well against Toledo.”

Wells said often teams will hold certain runners out of meets for whatever reason. Personally, she doesn’t believe in holding someone from competition unless he or she is injured.

The Toledo women’s team finished sixth behind BG last season at the Mid-American Conference championship and was voted to finish fourth this season.

Wells said this meet will indicate where both of her teams are progress-wise, and then she’ll know what each team needs to work on from this point on.

“We’re always looking to progress week to week, but this meet will tell us exactly what we need to get better at,” she said. “Running indi-vidually is different than running in a meet, so we’ll see what the differences are in that regard.”

BG and Toledo will com-pete again next Saturday at 2:45 p.m. in their home meet, the Mel Brodt Invitational.

BG to play Brockport at Cuyahoga County airport

BG to meet with

Toledo tonight

Falcons to kick off season

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dust.That same return also gave

Williams sole possession of sec-ond place on the University’s all-time kickoff returns list with 56.

Thornton also holds that record with 65, but if Williams sees consistent action at the return position this season, he will most likely break that record as well. And if he continues his studies on opposing special teams and stays healthy, it’s almost a sure thing.

“I study every team’s kickoffs so I know where the holes are,” Williams said.

Williams had limited playing time last season as he struggled with injuries, returning just nine kicks on the season for 129 yards. The year before, he racked up a

single-season record of return 954 yards.

Now back in the swings of things on kickoffs, Williams hopes to find the same success he had as a sophomore.

“I knew it was a redemption year for me,” Williams said. “It’s a real big deal.”

He also is a first-year starter at cornerback, taking Kenny Lewis’ place. And on the first play of the fourth quarter, he recorded his first career interception.

“I was studying the offense play by play all night long so I knew they were going to do some kind of smash route or something so I just sat there waiting on it,” Williams said.

He was only able to return it 13 yards, but it did set up Jerry Phillips’ first career field goal. Fellow cornerback Adrien Spencer added an interception return for a touchdown with 2:14 left in the game.

Coach Dave Clawson said Williams’ and Spencer’s abil-ity to tighten up on the offense in the second half allowed the interception to happen.

“At times, I thought they played a little bit soft and tentative early, but as the game wore on, they felt a lot more confident,” Clawson said. “They started playing a little tighter.”

It was a difference-maker as Troy marched down the field in 1:56 to open the game and was slowed every drive after that until Trojan quarterback Levi Brown was seemingly throwing away more passes than he was com-pleting as the game wound down.

And while Williams has seen plenty of action on the field in his career, some of that first drive may have come from a few butterflies in his stomach.

“The first couple series, I was definitely nervous,” Williams said.

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near him.“It doesn’t bother me until after

the game,” Barnes said. “You see lots of guys get hung up on one play and [it ruins] the game for them. I can’t allow that to be me.”

And that was the case as Barnes caught a touchdown pass a few plays after his big drop.

“Phil” ing the voidFreshman kicker Jerry Phillips

made his debut on the first play of the season, booting the open-ing kickoff into the end zone for a touchback.

In the second quarter, Phillips got his first chance to make a PAT, splitting the uprights after BG’s first touchdown.

With the game tied at 14-14 heading into the fourth quarter, Phillips’ name was called with 10:45 left for his first career field goal try.

And he drilled the 21-yarder with ease.

“I’m proud of Jerry Phillips for

the first time kicking,” Clawson said. “He did a nice job.”

ContainmentComing into the game, one

of the biggest question marks was if the Falcon offensive line would be able to contain Troy’s defensive ends.

The Falcon offensive line was able to contain Troy’s standouts Brandon Lang and Cameron Sheffield through-out the entire game. The pair could only take Sheehan down for a sack just once – for a loss of one yard.

Tackles Brady Minturn and Tyler Donahue took care of most of the load, and Sheehan was very happy with their play after the game.

“Up front did a great job han-dling their two D-ends and it

made it a lot easier to put the ball in guy’s hands,” quarterback Tyler Sheehan said.

And not getting to Sheehan wasn’t the only negative for them.

With 8:04 left in the game, Lang was hit with a late hit pen-alty after throwing Chris Bullock out of bounds on a first-down play. The Falcons proceeded to gain 29 yards the next play before Bullock rushed it in for a 1-yard touchdown.

True sportsmenPrior to game, both BG and

Troy lined up their team’s along the hashes, and after the coin toss, players shook hands.

Both teams also were very respectful of one another after the game, shaking hands a sec-ond time.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY BG RUGBYPLAYER: Winger Rocco Mauer plays in last weekend’s Alumni Game.

NOTES From Page 6

“Up front did a great job handling their two D-ends and it made it a lot easier

to put the ball in guy’s hands.”Tyler Sheehan | Quarterback

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PULSE8 Friday, September 4, 2009

around the game,’” said Jane Myers, director of the Falcon Club. “Football is a unique event that allows alumni and friends to come together in an open area and socialize.”

Although nobody knows quite when the University tailgating phenomenon began or what it entailed, Myers commented that the tailgating began to increase drastically when for-mer football coach Urban Meyer was at the University and that it has grown ever since. She also admitted that while there are no sure-fire traditions for tail-gating, the food has a history of being brown and orange.

Myers also mentioned that tailgating traditions vary among different groups.

“Many have their set spots that they go to each year,” Myers added. “Students can attend the organized UAO tail-gate events on the west side of the stadium, or their organi-zations can rent a tent for the Tent City area and have a more organized event.”

Of the many activities that take place at the stadium, Myers said that corn hole is a must.

Senior Billy Puckett offered further insight into the life of a die-hard student fan. Puckett has attended every home game since his freshman year and said that the atmosphere of a large college creates the per-fect ambiance for football enthusiasts.

“I was always, always a big football fan in high school, and then coming here, on such a larger scale, it’s just really enjoyable. I haven’t missed a home game,” said Puckett, who has also traveled to Cleveland, Miami University and Ohio University to watch the Falcons play. “We’re always there two hours early so we can stand in the front row at the 35 yard line.”

Puckett and around 10 to 15 of his friends go out to each home game and meet up to begin the festivities, which don’t actually take place at the stadium.

On rare occasions, Puckett and his friends even “paint up” in University colors, although that doesn’t always go according to plan.

Puckett described one instance when he and his friends painted up, where he was the F in “Falcons.”

“It was a really hot day,” he said. “It was probably 80 degrees outside.”

He said they were probably outside for about five or six hours, which gave him a bad sunburn. He believes the sun went through the orange paint to his skin, but deflected off of the brown paint, causing an F-shaped sunburn for around six months.

“I got the worst sunburn ever,” Puckett said.

Though Doyt Perry Stadium is clearly Puckett’s first choice for watching a University foot-ball game, he concluded that Buffalo Wild Wings is second best choice for catching the football action.

While some students tailgate and join in celebrating the team with groups of friends from home, there are many events on campus that offer a surplus of activities on game day.

Senior Ian Kenyon expressed his love for tailgating and why it’s so important to the University fan base.

“Rather than simply going to a three-hour football game, it enhances the overall experi-ence and turns a game into a full day event,” Kenyon said. “People grill out, drink, social-ize and talk about football before their favorite university plays. Does it get any better for a fan?”

Kenyon also explained how the University could become a better tailgating community.

“Another option that I would love to see in Bowling Green is the use of morning and after-noon house parties,” Kenyon said. “I think Bowling Green could really utilize Wooster Street better and get a much better atmosphere on game day. It would take a commu-nity effort, but how cool would it be for visitors to drive down Wooster coming off I-75 and see students outside all day getting pumped up to cheer for the Falcons? It would add a whole new dimension to BG game days.”

While many students seem enthused enough about the football season, not everyone attends the game, and most students don’t tailgate in the traditional sense at the sta-dium. University sophomore Shawntae Love falls into this last group.

“Tailgating seems fun, something cool you could do before the game,” Love said. “Hopefully one day I can give it a try.”

Love admitted that she has attended several University games, but the idea of tail-gating has never materialized into an actuality for her.

Whether the students attend the tailgating celebrations, the festivities continue regardless.

Myers, the director of the Falcon Club, believes that game day festivities can help the football team get pumped for their game.

“The team walks down the east-side sidewalk two hours prior to the game [where] the band plays and the fans cheer them on,” Myers said. “It is a tradition, and I think the team gets fired up seeing the fans cheer them on as they go into the stadium.”

The atmosphere seems to be charged and the campus is ready for another season of Falcon football.

“I think this year, so far, has probably been the best atmo-sphere, as far as people being excited for the season to start,” Puckett said. “From what I’ve seen, there are several groups that are really encouraging their members to get out and go to the football games.”

Puckett’s hope in football success is also evident. He believes the Falcons will go undefeated this year.

“Every year I like to think that we’re gonna go twelve and zero, and if we lose the first game, I like to think we’re gonna go eleven and one. I think that’s the attitude most people have to take.”

BEER. (No catchy title needed. I already have your attention.)With all that delicious heart attack-inducing fun now set-tling in our stomachs, it’s time for the main event. But before you reach for the Nati, con-sider a more festive alternative. Blue Moon is an orange-amber beer that seems to have been invented just for such an occa-sion. Pair with a dark brown

Guinness or Sam Adams for the perfect balance of school spirit and drunken good times. So, no matter how difficult a task it may be, go ahead and swap that swimsuit for your favorite Falcon hoodie. But hopefully, armed with a game plan for football season’s big-gest culinary contest, you should be able to make the transition with as little pain as possible. Though, between you and me, let’s keep out the LFO CD. Everyone secretly likes that song, anyway.

TAILGATING From Page 5

THREE B’s From Page 5

“Another option that I would love to see in Bowling Green is the use of

morning and afternoon house parties. I think Bowling Green could really utilize

Wooster Street better and get a much better atmosphere on game day.”

Ian Kenyon | Senior